Hiroshi Yamazaki

was a Japanese photographer whose works concentrate on the sun and the sea.

Born in Nagano on 21 September 1946, Yamazaki studied at Nihon University but dropped out in 1968, starting out as a freelance cameraman a year later, working in both still photography and 16mm film.

Yamazaki is best known for two series. "Heliography" uses long exposures to show the path of the sun near the horizon. "Horizon" (Suiheisen saishū) is a study of sea horizons.

Yamazaki won the 26th Ina Nobuo Award in 2001.

Yamazaki became a full professor at Tohoku University of Art and Design in 1993, and also taught at Musashino Art University and TPO Photo School.

He died on 5 June 2017 of cancer of the gums.

Solo exhibitions by Yamazaki

• "Observation". Galleria Grafica (Tokyo), 1974, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979.
• Exhibition of 16mm work. Underground Cinématheque (Tokyo), 1976.
• Exhibition. Box Gallery (Nagoya), 1981.
• "Optical Landscape on Movie". Image Forum (Tokyo), 1982.
• "Yamazaki Hiroshi 1972–82". Zeit Foto Salon (Tokyo), 1982.
• "Ten Points Heliography". Konishiroku Photo Gallery (Tokyo), 1982.
• "Heliography Day and Year". Ginza Nikon Salon (Tokyo), 1982.
• "Optical Landscape". Nagase Photo Salon (Tokyo), and elsewhere, 1983, 1987, 1989.
• "Suiheisen saishÅ«". Polaroid Gallery (Tokyo), 1984.
• "Suiheisen saishÅ« II". Olympus Gallery (Tokyo); Picture Photo Space (Osaka), 1984.
• "Fix and Movement" (movie exhibition). Funabashi Seibu Art Spot (Funabashi), 1990.
• "Sakura". Zeit Foto Salon (Tokyo), 1990.
• "Critical Landscape". Hillside Gallery (Tokyo), 1990.
• "Yamazaki Hiroshi 1969–1992". Plaza Gallery (Tokyo), 1993.
• "Sakura – Equivalent". Hosomi Gallery (Tokyo), Temporary Space (Sapporo), 1993.
• "Walking Works". Gallery Art Graph (Tokyo), 1994.
• "Suiheisen saishÅ« III". Contax Salon (Tokyo), 1994.
• "Cherry Blossom". Ginza Nikon Salon (Tokyo), Osaka Nikon Salon (Osaka), 2001.
• "Yamazaki Hiroshi Early Works" 1969–1974". Place M (Tokyo), 2002.
• "Cherry Blossom". Shinjuku Nikon Salon (Tokyo), Osaka Nikon Salon (Osaka), 2005.
• "Ugoku shashin! Tomaru Eiga!!". Creation Gallery G8, Guardian Garden (Tokyo), 2009.

Publications by Yamazaki

Books by Yamazaki

• Heliography. Tokyo: SeikyÅ«sha 1983. Text in both Japanese and English.
• Suiheisen saishÅ«: Yamazaki Hiroshi shashinshÅ« () / Horizon. Tokyo: Rikuyōsha, 1984.
• Hiroshi Yamazaki: Critical landscape. Tokyo: Hillside Gallery, 1990.

Other books with work by Yamazaki

• Shashin toshi Tōkyō () / Tokyo / City of Photos. Tokyo: Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, 1995. Catalogue of an exhibition held in 1995. (Other photographers whose work appears are Takanobu Hayashi, Hiroh Kikai, RyÅ«ji Miyamoto, Daidō Moriyama, Shigeichi Nagano, Ikkō Narahara, Mitsugu Ōnishi, Masato Seto, Issei Suda, Akihide Tamura, and Tokuko Ushioda.) Captions and texts in both Japanese and English.
• Stack, Trudy Wilner, ed. Sea change: The seascape in contemporary photography. Tucson, Ariz.: Center for Creative Photography, 1999.

Publications about Yamazaki

• Yamazaki Hiroshi, "Ugoku shashin! Tomaru eiga!!" (). Time Tunnel series, vol. 28. Tokyo: Guardian Garden, 2009.

See also

• Chris McCaw

Notes

External links

• Goldberg, Vicki. "Threatened but unruffled, a persistent beauty in sea, sky and sand." New York Times 25 June 1999. A review of "Sea Change: The Seascape in Contemporary Photography" (International Center of Photography).
• Hiroshi Yamazaki within "Sea Change"